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No. 731,443. PATENTED JUNE 23, 190a. H. GILES.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 23, 1903.

PATENT Q FICE.

HARVEY GILES, OF SOUTH BOUNDBROOK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO IDEAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF NEW BOUNDBROOK, NEl/V JERSEY, A COR- PORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

CASH-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,448, dated June 23, 1903. Application filed November 8, 1902. Serial No. 130,518- (No model.)

To (Z6 whom it may concern..- v

Be it known that I, HARVEY GILES, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of South Boundbrook, in the county of Somerset and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Regis ters, of which the following is a specification. The invention relates to improvements in cash-registers; and it consists in the novel features, structure, and combinations of parts hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The present invention has reference more particularly to improvements in the character of cash-registers made the subject of Letters Patent of the United States Nos. 640,825

and 640,966, granted January9, 1900, to E. F. No. 077,896, granted July 9,1901,

Spaulding, to Smith and Giles, and No. 690,472, granted January 7, 1902, to Smith and Giles. In the operation of the registers shown in the said pat cuts the operator moves the exposed actuating or setting levers along lines of numerals provided upon the front face of the register-casing to set certain interiorsegments into proper op erative relation to the pinions connected with the registering-wheels, and thereafter the operator by moving an exposed crank or handle places the said pinions into direct engagement with the said segments and effects the movement of the said segments to their normal position, whereby said segments are caused to operate the registering-wheels to the extent desired and governed by the position given to the said segments by the said actuating or setting levers.

The purpose of the present invention is more especially to provide the cash-registers of the character above referred to with means connected with and operable simultaneously with the register mechanism for printing and delivering a check bearing the desired data and for printing upon a tape, known as a detail-strip, the amounts registered and .15 other desired data.

In accordance with my present invention I shall prefer to print upon the check to be delivered from the machine a word denoting the department, such as the word soda,

i from which the sale has been made, the ini- 5o tial of the salesman making the sale and operating theregister, the amount of the sale, an advertisement, such as the name and address of the store using the register, the consecutive number of the check, and the date of the sale, while upon the detail-strip remaining in themachine I shall print a word denoting the department from which the sale is made, the initial of the salesman, and the amount of the sale.

The invention and satisfactory means for carrying the same into effect will be fully understood from the detailed description here inafter presented, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure l is afront elevation of a cash-register constructed in accordance with and embodyingtheinvention, a portion of the crankhandle being broken away. Fig. 2 is a front elevation, partly broken away, of the righthand portion of the interior mechanism of the register, the casing and the cash-drawer being omitted. Fig. 3 is a like view of the left-hand portion of same. Fig. 4. is a central vertical longitudinal section through the cashregister. Fig. 5 is an end elevation, partly broken away, of the interior mechanism of the register, the casing and cash-drawer being omitted and the view being taken from the right-hand end of said mechanism. Fig. 8e 6 is an end elevation, looking at the left-hand end of the register, of the interior mechanism of the latter, a portion of the register-cas ing being indicated in sectionand the cashdrawerbeing omitted, and this view showing more'particularly. the check and detail strip actuating and printing mechanism with the parts connected therewith. Fig. 7 is a detaehed side elevation of a cam-wheel, forming one of the operative details to be hereinafter described. Fig. 8 is an edge view of same. Fig. 9 is an enlarged detached sectional view on the dotted line 9 9 of Fig. 6 of the cylinders for indicating to the customer the'department from which the sale is made and the initial of the salesman, the printing on these cylinders being observable through glass windows from both the front and rear same.

another one of the date-printing wheels car of that portion of the register-casing inclosing said cylinders. Fig. is a vertical longitudinal section on the dotted line 10 10 of Fig. 3 through the left-hand portion ofthe interior mechanism of the register, this section being through thatpart of the register embracing more particularly the check and detail strip printing and actuating mechanism. Fig. 11 is a like section of same on the dotted line 11 11 of Fig. 3. Fig. 12 is a detached side elevation of a cam-plate, fortning one of the operative details of the machine to be hereinafter described. Fig. 13 is an edge view of same. Fig. 14 is a top view, partly broken away, of the left-hand portion of the interior mechanism of the register, the register-casing being omitted and the mechanism shown having to do more particularly with the check and detail printing and actuating features. Fig. 15 is a detached front elevation, partly broken away, of a portion of the mechanism of the register, this mechanism having to do tnore particularly with the transmission of motion from the hand actuating or setting levers to the sliding rack-bars by which the printing-wheels carried by the rotary printing-frame are moved to correspond with the movement of said levers. Fig. 16 is a central vertical longitudinal section through the power-transmitting means shown in front elevation in Fig. 15. Fig. 17 is a de tached side elevation of the rotary printingframe,taken frotn the right-hand side thereof. Fig. 18 is a side elevation of the said rotary printingframe, taken from the left hand side thereof. Fig. 19 is a vertical section through said printing-frame on the dotted line 19 19 of Fig. 20. Fig. 20 is a top view of the rotary printing-frame. Fig. 21 is a detached perspective view of the pawls for engaging the pinions connected with the amount-printing wheels carried by the rotary printingframe. Fig. 22 is a perspective view of the pawls for actuating the consecutive-numbering printing-wheels carried by the rotary printing-frame. Fig. 23 is a detached side elevation of one of the dateprinting wheels carried by the rotary printing-frame, this wheel bearing on its periphery numbers ranging in order from O to 9, inclusive. Fig. 24 is an edge view of Fig. 25 is a detached side elevation of ried by the rotary printing-frame, this Wheel bearing on its periphery numerals ranging -in order from U to 3, inclusive, the

on this wheel with, for illustration, the 1 on the wheel shown in Fig. 23 denoting the thirty-first day of the month. Fig. 26 is an edge view of same. Fig. 27 is a detached side elevation of the month-denoting datewheel carried by the rotary printing-frame. Fig. 28 is an edge view of same. Fig. 29 is a detached side elevation of one of the consecutive-numbering wheels with the ratchetplate thereon, this figure representing either of the three lowest consecutive-numbering wheels, the ratchet-plate of each of which contains one deep notch, as shown in Fig. 29, in addition to the usual notches. Fig. 30 is a detached top view of the four consecutivenumbering wheels, each bearing on its periphery numbers ranging from O to 9, inclusive. Fig. 31 is a detached side elevation of one of the consecutive-numbering wheels, this view being taken from that side of the wheel opposite to the one shown in Fig. 29 and showing in section a portion of the shaft upon which the said wheels rotate. Fig. 32 is a vertical section of same with a portion of the shaft shown in position. Fig. 33 is a detached side elevation, looking at the left-hand side thereof, of the detail-stripsupporting frame and feeding mechanism. Fig. 34 is a top View of satne. Fig. 35 1s a detached end view of the roller and its parts for engaging the end of the detail-strip for winding said strip from the reel, the elements shown in Fig. 35 being presented in the position they are given when the extreme edge of the strip is first applied to them and before said parts are locked together so as to bind said edge. Fig. 36 is a like view of satne, but illustrating said parts in the position given to them when they are locked together to firmly bind or grip the end edge of the detail-strip. Fig. 37 is a sectional view of same on the dotted line 37 37- of Fig. 35 and showing in position the hand-operated screw for locking the parts together. Fig. 38 is a detached perspective view of one portion of the roll for winding upon itself the detail-strip from the reel. Fig. 39 isa vertical section, on the dotted line 39 39 of Fig. 33, of the reel for the detail-strip, this reel being provided with means for preventing the loosening up of the coils of paper thereon. Fig. 40 is a detached perspective View of a portion of same. Fig. 41 is a detached side elevation, looking at the right-hand side of same, of the means for feeding the check strip and severing the checks from the same. Fig. 42 is a top view of same. Fig. 43 is a front elevation of same.

In the drawings, denotes the general exterior casing of the register; 51, the operatingshat't for the register mechanism; 52, the hand actuating or setting levers; 53, Fig. 4, the usual segments adapted to follow said levers 52 and to be set into predetermined positions thereby; 54,the registering-wheel shaft,which is vertically movable; 55, the registeringwheels loosely mounted upon said shaft, so as to be rotated thereon; 56, the usual pinion-wheels connected with said registeringwheels to be engaged and actuated by said segments 53 for rotating the registeringwheels to effect registration; 57, gear-wheels connected with said registering-wheels to be engaged by the gear-wheels 58 when the registering-wheel shaft 54 is in its upper position; 59, a shaft upon which the gear-wheels 58 are rigidly secured and which is utilized in connection with the gear-wheels 58 and gearwheels 57 for setting the registering-wheels back to their position when desired; 60, the usual indicating cylinders or drums for indicating to the customer the amount of the sales; 61, a vertically-movable frame carrying said cylinders 60 and having at its lower end a forwardly-projecting foot 62, Fig. 4; 63, an arm connected with the operating-shaft 51 for moving the frame 61 and cylinders 60 to their upper exposure position when the shaft 51 is turned frontwardly; 64, a pawl for engaging the frame 61 and supporting it in its upper position; 65, vertically-movable rackbars to engage pinions 66, carried by the indicating-cylinders 60, for rotating said cylinders (SO, and 67 rearwardly-extending arms connected with the hand-settinglevers 52 and pivotally connected at their rear end with the lower ends of the rack-bars 65, so that when the levers 52 are moved they may actuate said rack-bar and correspondingly rotate the said cylinders 60, all of the features thus specifically designated being well known in this art,having been disclosed in the aforesaid Letters Patent, and therefore requiring no special explanation.

The hand actuating or setting levers 52 extend frontwardly through slots 68, Fig. 1, formed in the register-casing 50, and upon the front of said casing are provided columns of numerals ranging from O to 9, inclusive, to guide the operator when moving said levers 52 to their necessary predetermined positions in accordance with the amounts of the sales, and the hand setting-levers 52 after having been moved to their predetermined positions along the slots 68 are locked against movement during all such time as the main operating-shaft 51 is performing its movement toward the front to restore the segments 53 to their 0 position and then back to its normal position, and the means for locking the levers 52 comprise the rigidly-secured serrated segments 69, carried by said levers 52, the pivotally-mounted dogs 70 at their upper ends engaging said segments 69, and a slidable shaft 71, containing in line with said dogs 70 grooves 72, which during the setting of the levers 52 will allow said dogs to have a sufficient vibratory movement to allow the segment 69 to pass over them, said dogs at such time merely placing the levers 52 under a yielding restraint sufficient to hold them in any set position to which they may be moved. WVhen the shaft 51 is set in motion, which is after the levers 52 are given their predetermined positions, a cam-plate 73, Figs. 2 and 5, secured on the shaft 51, will be carried downward against the inner or rear end of a plate 74, secured on the end of the said shaft 71, and slide said shaft 71 outwardly toward the right, thereby causing the grooves 72 of said shaft 71 to pass from alinement with the dogs 70 and carrying solid portions of said shaft 71 against the adjoining curved surfaces of said dogs 70, the said dogs 70 being thereby prevented from having any vibratory movement and being held stationary against the segments 69, with the result of locking the levers 52 against movement in either direction. The plate 73 on the shaft 51'will ride against the inner end of the plate 74 on the shaft 71 during the entire movement of the operating-shaft 51, and thus the levers 52 will remain'in their locked condition during substantially all of the movement of the shaft 51 from its initial position and back to its initial position. When the shaft 51 is moving upwardly and rearwardly toward its normal position,a plate 75, carried (by means of pins 76) by the cam-plate 73, will ride upwardly against the right-hand side of the inner end of the plate 74: and force said plate 74 and the shaft 71 toward the left to their normal initial position, thereby restoring the grooves 72 of the shaft 71 into alinement with the dogs 70, thus freeing said dogs 70 and the levers 52 from their locked condition. As may be seen in Fig. 2, the plate has an inwardly-extending toe 77 to engage the plate 7 1 during the upward movement of said plate 75. The coiled spring 78, Fig. 2, also aids in restoring the plate 74 and grooved shaft 71 to their normal position. (Shown in Fig. 2.) The segments 69, locking-dogs 70, and grooved sliding shaft 71 are illustrated in the aforesaid Letters Patent No. 690,472, dated January 7, 1902, and therefore require no further description herein.

In the patents hereinbefore designated the operating-shaft 51 is shown as provided with an exposed crank-handle by which movement was imparted to said shaft, said crank-handle normally extending upwardly and being adapted to be moved frontwardly and clownwardly to about a horizontal position for causing the shaft 51 to perform about onefourth of a rotation, said exposed crank-ban dle being then pushed upwardly to its normal position, reversing the movement of the shaft 51. In the present construction the crank for imparting the usual movement to the operating-shaft 51 in the register-casing I designate in Figs. 2 and 5 by the numeral 79, and this operating-crank 79 is connected by a pitman-rod 80 with a crank-pin 81, car- TIO ried by a shaft 82, upon whose outer righthand end is provideda crank-handle 83 to be used by the operator in effecting registration, indication, and printing on the detail and check strips and the severing of the checks. The crank-handle 83 and shaft 82 will at each operation perform a full rotation, but will through the rod 80 only impart a frontwardly and downwardly movement to the crank 79 and shaft 51 and then an upwardly and rearwardly movement to said crank and shaft while restoring the latter to their normal position, said crank 79 and shaft 51 having imparted to them about one-fourth of a rotation from their normal position and then back to their normal position. It is thought that in some instances it is better that the exposed crank for operating the shaft 51 shall perform a complete rotation,

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and the purpose of providing the exposed crank-handle 83 and inner crank 79 is to enable the operator to impart the usual movement or partial rotation to the shaft 51 by means of the crank-handle, which may perform a full rotation. Upon the interior end frame 84 is provided a stop 85, Fig, 2, for arresting the crank-handle 83 at its normal initial position, and upon the crank-handle 83 is provided a sliding stop 86, held by a spring 87, set within the crank-handle 83 in a position to contact at its inner end with the stop 85. When the operator desires to move the crank-handle 83, he will press the stop 86 downward against the stress of the spring 87 until the inner end of said stop passes below and becomes free of the stop 85, and thereupon the operator will draw the said crankhandle 83 toward the front and move it to perform a full rotation, loosening from his grasp the stop 86, so that upon the end of such rotation the said stop will contact with the stop 85 and arrest said handle 83. Upon the shaft 82, adjacent to the inner supporting side frame 84, is provided a ratchet-wheel 88 to be engaged by a spring-pressed pawl 89, Figs. 2 and 5, pivotally secured to the said frame 84, the purpose of the ratchet 88 and pawl 89 being to prevent the exposed crankhandle 83 from being rotated except in a proper direction and to compel said handle 83 when once started to perform its movement to be given a complete rotation back to its normal position. Although the exposed crank-handle 83 in the present instance is given a complete rotation with every operation of the register, the operating-crank 79 and shaft 51 have imparted to them only the motion described in the aforesaid Letters Patent for the operating-shaft and exposed crankhandle.

In the present construction I utilize the movement of the shaft 82 for effecting the printing on the detail and check strips, and I utilize the movement of the hand actuating or setting levers 52 for setting certain typewheels carried by the printing-frame in accordance with the amounts of the sales denoted by the positions given to the said levers 52 in the usual operation of the machine preparatory to registration and indication being effected from the crank-handle 83, the latter being employed not only to effect the registration and indication, but also through the shaft 82 to secure the printing by means of the printing-frame hereinafter described upon the check and detail strips.

The printing frame (numbered 90) as a whole is shown in detail in Figs. 17 to 32, inclusive, and is mounted upon a shaft 91, which has its bearings in stationary parts of the framing of the machine and receives its rotary motion from the driving-shaft 82, 'hereinbefore referred to, through a gear-wheel 92, Figs. 3, 11, and 14, carried on the left-hand end of said shaft 82, and a gear-wheel 93, secured upon the right-hand end of the shaft 91 and in constant mesh with the said gear wheel 92. With every full movement of the operating crank-handle 83 the shaft 82 and gear-wheels 92 93 will perform a complete rotation and impart a full rotation to the printing-frame 90.

The printing-frame 90 comprises two connected side plates 94 95, between which are mounted on shafts the series of type-wheels 96 for printing the amount of the sales, the consecutive-numbering type-wheels 97 for printing the serial number of the sales registered, the dating-wheels, comprising the month-wheel 98 and numbered wheels 99 100, for printing the day of the month, the department-printing wheel 101, and the initialprinting wheel 102, the characters on the wheel 101 being to indicate the department or departments from which the sales have been made and the initial-wheel 102 being provided to indicate the initial of the salesmen making the sales. The amount-wheels 96 are of usual character and preferably four in number, each on its periphery being numbered from 0 to 9, inclusive, and each being in rigid connection with a gear-wheel 103, through which motion may be imparted to the amount-wheels 96, each wheel 96 being capable of independent movement upon the shaft 104. Each gear-wheel 103 will be provided with a spring-pressed dog 105, which will permit the gear-wheel to turn in either direction, but which will restrain said gearwheel against looseness of movement or undue momentum. The printing-frame 90 is shown in its normal initial at-rest position in Figs. 17 and 19, and it is when said frame is in this position that the amount-Wheels 96 are rotated and thereby set in accordance with the amount of the sale to be registered and printed upon the check and detail strips. The amount-wheels 96 are moved to bring the proper numbers on their peripheries into line to print the amount of a sale by intermediate mechanism actuated by the hand setting-levers 52, the movement of said levers 52 operating to set the interior segments 53 for the registering wheels and also through the mechanism to be hereinafter described to set the amount-printing wheels 96 preparatory to the rotation of the printingframe from the driving-shaft 82. The pawls 105 for the gear-wheels 103, connected with the amount-printing wheels 96, are all in one integral casting, as shown in Fig. 21, this casting or pawl-frame being mounted upon a pin 106 and having an arm 107, carrying the stud 108, projectinglaterally through an elongated slot 109, formed in the plate 94 of the printing-frame 90, as shown in Fig. 17. The stud 108 is provided to cooperate with a hub 110 (shown by dotted. lines in Fig. 0) on the frame 220 and having at one point a recess 111, which when the printing-frame 90 is in its initial position will be directly opposite to the stud 108 and allow the pawl-arm 107 to have a free vibratory motion under any movement that may be imparted to the gear-wheels 103, the purpose being that when the frame is in its initial position thewheels103 shall be free to rotate in either direction. After the gear-wheels 103 have been turned to set the amount-wheels 96 the frame 90 is given a rotation, and during this rotation of the frame 90 the stud 108 of the pawl-arm 107 will ride on the concentric periphery of the hub 110, and thereby lock the pawls against movement, this locking of the pawls 105 being to maintain the gearwheels 103 and amount-wheels 96 inlocked condition during the entire rotation of the printing-frame 90. hen the printing-frame 90 has again reached its initial position, the stud 108 will come to rest when directly opposite the recess 111 of the hub 110, and hence at such time the pawls 105 will'berfree to vibrate, and the gear-wheels 103 may be again moved to set the amount printing wheels 96.

Prior to describing the details of the consecutive-numbering, dating, department, and initial wheels carried by the printing-frame 90 I will explain the mechanism intermediate the hand setting-levers 52 and gear-wheels 103 of the amount-printing wheels 96, so that the method of setting the wheels 96 when the frame 90 is in its initial position may be fully understood, the said wheels 96 being set independently of all of the other wheels carried by the said frame 90.

The mechanism for directly engaging the gear-wheels 103 of t he amount-printing wheels 96 for rotating said wheels comprise, when four printing-wheels 96 are employed, four sliding rack-bars 112, these rack-bars 112 being disposed at right angles to the shaft 91 of the printing-frame 90, and there being one independent rack-bar 112 for each of the printing-wheels 96. The rack-bars 112 are in mesh with the gear-wheels 103 of the printing-wheels 96 when the operating crank-handle 83 is in its normal at-rest position, so that upon the movement of any of the hand setting-levers 52 the proper aniountprinting wheels 96 may be rotated by means of the rack-bars 112; but, as hereinafter described, when'the operating crank-handle 83 is set in motion the rear portions of the rack-bars 112 will be lowered from the gear-Wheels 103 of the printing-wheels 96, so that said rack-bars may not interfere with the rotation of the printing-frame 90.

The rack-bars 112 have a sliding motion imparted to them for setting the printingwvheels 96, and, as may be seen in Fig. 10, the said rack-bars have three sets of teeth numbered, respectively, 113, 114, and 115, the teeth 113 being for engagement with the gear-wheels 103, the teeth 114 for engage ment with an upwardly-projecting lip 116 when the rear portions of said rack-bars are lowered from the gear-wheels 103, and the teeth being for engagement with gearwheels 117, by which said rack-bars 112 receive their motion, said teeth 115 remaining at all times in engagement withthe said gearwheels 117, and there being one gear-wheel 117 for each rack-bar 112. the rack-bars 112 engage the lip 116 when the rear portions of said rack-bars 112 are lowered for the purpose of locking said rack-bars against having any sliding movement during the rotation of the operating-handle 83 and printing-frame 90. The rack-bars 112 in their rear portions are provided with the elongated slots 118, within which is provided a pin 119, the latter, as hereinafter described, cooperating with said slot 118 to guide and support the rear portions of the rack-bars 112. The pin 119 extends through the slots 118 of all of the rack-bars 112 and is also utilized for effecting the upward and downward movement toward and from the gear-wheels 103 of the rear portions of the rack-bars 112, and when the rear portions of the rack-bars 112 are moved downwardly, so that their teeth 114 engage the locking-lip 116, the said bars 112 are by means of the pin 119 and the mechanism connected therewith locked in such position during all of the time that the operating crank-handle 83 is away from its initial normal at-rest position. The pin 119 is carried by a lever 120, pivotally mounted on a stud 121, secured to the stationary supporting plate 122, Figs. 5 and 11, forthe operative mechanism connected with the printing devices. The lever 120 at its front end carries the pin 119 and at its rear endis pivotally connected by a screw or bolt 123 with a lever-arm 124, Figs. 5, 11, and 14,

which is pivotally supported from the afore said stationary frame 122 upon a stud-bolt 125 and has a detent 126 at its front end to be engaged by a circular cam-plate 127, fastened, as shown in Fig. 11, by screws upon the right-hand face of the gear-wheel 93 and having a notch 128 at a single point to receive, when the printing-frame 90 is in its normal at-rest position, the detent 126 of the said 1ever 124. By means of a small spring 129 the detent 126 is normally moved against the periphery of the cam-plate 127. The hole in the rear end of the lever 124, which receives the bolt 123, carried by the lever 120, is a little larger in diameter than the diameter of said bolt in order to allow a little freedom of movement for said bolt, this being required because of the fact that the levers 120 and 124 have different centers.

It has been described above that the rackbars 112 receive theirsliding motion forturning the printing-wheels 96 from the gearwheels 117. The gear-wheels 117, with the means supporting them, are illustrated in detail in Figs. 15 and 16, in which it will be seen that the said wheels 117 are each socured upon the left-hand end of a shaft, there being four shafts numbered, respectively, 130, 131, 132, and 133, varying in length, and for convenience the shafts 130, 131, and 132 being within the tubular shaft 133. The shafts 131 and 132 are also tubular, while the The teeth 114 ofshaft is a plain rod. The shaft 130 is mounted at its opposite ends in suitable standards 134, secured to a base-plate for the interior operative mechanism of the register, and an intermediate standard 136 serves as a convenient support for the intermediate portions of the several shafts. The righthand ends of the shafts 130, 131, 132, and 133 are provided with gear-wheels respectively numbered 137, 138, 139, and 140, through which power is imparted for rotating said shafts, said shafts being each independent of the other and each having a gear-wheel 117 on its left-hand end and a gear-wheel on its right-hand end, as shown in Fig. 16. All of the gear-wheels 137, 138, 139, and 140 are engaged by intermediate gear wheels 141, mounted upon stationary brackets 142, extending frontwardly from the general supporting-framing for the operative parts of the register, and these gear-wheels 141, which are simply intermediate transmitting gearwheels, are in constant mesh with pinionwheels143, also supported from said brackets 142, and the pinion-wheels 143 are in constant mesh with segmental racks 144, secured to the hand actuating or setting levers 52.

The gear-wheels 117 to engage and drive the racks 112 are themselves engaged by a pawl-frame 146, pivotally mounted in a supporting -frame 147 and having four rearwardly-projecting arms to engage the four gear-wheels 117. The frame 146 is in rigid connection with a downwardly and rearwardly extending lever-arm 148, having at its rear end a slot 149, Figs. 6 and 11, receiving a pin 150, carried at the lower end of a pivotally-mounted lever 151, whose upper end is provided with a detent 152 in position to engage at the proper time a pin 153, secured on the left-hand face of the gear-wheel 92, Figs. 3, 5, 11, 14, 'to lock said gear-wheel 92 against rotation, which is the sole object of the pawl-frame 146 and lever 151. During the rotation of the gear-wheels 117 the pawl-frame 146, lever 148, and lever 151 will have a free rocking mot-ion imparted to them through thepassage of the teeth of the gearwheels'117 against the pawl-frame 146, and the pawl-frame 146 will perform no function unless the operator in moving the hand actuating or setting levers 52 arrest the latter before they reach their full position in line with the numbers on the front face of the register-casing. If the operator should arrest the levers 52 or any of them at a point intermediate any two of the numerals on the front face of the register-casing shown in Fig. 1, the engaging ends of the pawl-frame 146 instead of stopping between two of the teeth of the gear-wheels 117 would be held in their upper position upon the upper outerend of one of the teeth of the said gear-wheels 117, being there held by the then stationary gear wheel or wheels 117. Under this condition the rear end of the lever 148, connected with said pawl-frame 146, would be held in its upwardly-tilted position and would bind against the pin of the lever 151, causing the upper end of the latter to be thrown in- .wardly to a sufficient extent to pass over the pin 153, carried by the gear-wheel 92, the result being that the detent 152 at the upper end of the lever 151 would prevent the gearwheel 92 from rotating, and consequently would look the entire mechanism of the machine against movement, and this condition of the machine could only be remedied by moving the exposed operating-lever 52 to its full movement, so that it would be in direct line with one of the numerals on the front face of the register-casing. Whenever the hand setting-levers 52 are properly moved into complete on the front face of the register-casing, the gear-wheels 117 will always come to a stop with the engaging points of the pawl-frame 146 intermediate their teeth, this permitting the inwardly or rearwardly projecting end of the pawl-frame 146 to attain its lower position with the rear end of the leverarm 148 in its lower position and the pin 150 of the lever 151 free in the elongated slot 149 of said lever-arm 148, the lever-arm 151 then performing no function. The pawl-frame 146, lever-arm 148, and lever 151 are thus provided to compel the operator to..move the hand setting-levers 52 into accurate alinement with the numerals on the front face of the register-casing, the said lever 151 when the levers 52 are not thus accurately moved to alinement with the numerals on the register-casing being ing the power-transmitting gear-wheel 92 and thereby arresting the operation of the machine.

Returning to the rotary printingframe 90, having described the amou nt-printing wheels 96 and the means for actuating the same, I will refer to the consecutive numbering wheels 97 and date-printing wheels 98 99 100, all of which are mounted on a shaft 154, extending transversely of the side plates 94 95 of the printing-frame 90. The consecutivenumbering wheels 97 correspond with one another and each is provided on its periphery with numbers ranging from 0 to 9, in-

clusive, and on its side with a ratchet-wheel 156. The wheels 97 are shown in position in Fig. 20 and in detail in Figs. 29 to 32, inclusive. The ratchets 156, secured upon the side faces of the numbering-wheels 97, are exactly alike, except that the ratchets 156, connected with the three inner wheels 97, representing units, tens, and hundreds, are each provided with one deep notch, (numbered 157 in Fig. 29.) The ratchets 156 are engaged by springpressed pawls 158, Fig. 22, arranged on different planes and all in one integral casting, the purpose of arranging the pawls 158 on different planes and of providing the ratchets 156 with the deep notches 157 being to enable said' pawls, one after another, to pass into engagement with the ratchets 156 in a alinement with the numerals given the position for lock-' rigid frame-plate 122.

well-known manner for consecutively adding on the wheels 97, these wheels 97, ratchets 156, and pawls 158 being old in this and analogous arts and requiring no special description herein. The object of the wheels 97 is to print in consecutive order a number on the checks issued by the machine, and hence with each rotation of the printing-frame the pawl-frame 158 will be given one thrust to cause the wheels 97 to present a new number in consecutive order to be printed by them on the checkstrip. The wheels 97 are prevented from having reverse motion by means of the spring-pressed dogs 160, Figs. 19 and 20. The pawl-frame 158 is pivotally mounted on a shaft 161 and held against the ratchetwheels 156 by a spring 162, Fig. 19, and the shaft 161 is carried by an arm 163, mounted on a rock-shaft 164, having, Fig. 17, an arm 165 extending toward the axial center of the printing-frame 90 and carrying an inwardlyturned pin 166 within a slot 167 of the side plate 94. A spring 168, Fig. 17, restores the pawl-frame 158 to its normal position. The pin 166 and slot 167 limit the throw of the pawl-frame 158, and the thrust of the frame 158 is caused during each rotation of the printing-frame 90 by the inner end of the arm 165 being carried against a stationary pin 169, Fig. 11, extendinginwardlyinto the path of said arm 165 from the side of the The shaft 154 for the consecutive-numbering wheels 97 is notched, as shown in Figs. 31 and 32, and said wheels 97 carry springpressed pawls 170 of known character in engagement with said shaft. One end of the shaft 154 extends outwardly, as shown in Fig. 20, from the side of the printing-frame 90 and is slotted to receive a key. The wheels 97 are free on the shaft 154, and the pawls'170 are utilized in connection with the notch in the shaft 154 to reset the wheels 97 to their 0 position in a well-known manner, the shaft 154 being turned until all of the pawls 170 of the Wheels 97 are in the notch of said shaft.

The dating-wheels 98 99 100 are freely mounted upon the shaft 154, and they are arranged to be set by hand. The month-dating wheel 98 is provided in its side with twelve apertures 171, as shown in Fig. 27, the units-.

dating wheel 99 being provided in its side with ten apertures 172, Fig. 23, and the tens-dating Wheel 100 being provided in its side with four apertures 173, Fig. 25, and the purpose of the apertures in the wheels 98, 99, and 100is to receive a pin 174, Fig. 20, for locking said wheels together and permitting,when the pin 174 is withdrawn, the turning of said wheels in accordance with the date it is desired shall be printed upon the check-strip. The wheel 99 will require to be adjusted every day, the wheel 100 each ten days, and the wheel 98 each month.

The department printing wheel 101 is mounted on a shaft 200, carried by the side plates 94 of the rotary printing-frame 90, and upon the outer end of the shaft 200 is secured a gear-wheel 201, by which motion is imparted to the shaft 200 for the purpose of setting the Wheel 101 in accordance with the nature of the transaction to be printed by said wheel upon the check-strip, the purpose of the wheel 101 being to print upon the check-strip an indication of the department from which the sales are made, such as drugs, cigars, and the like. Upon the shaft 200, carrying the department-printing wheel 101, is mounted, by means of a sleeve 202, Fig. 20, the initial-wheel 102, the latter bearing upon its periphery in type various initials or, characters denoting the salesmen operatingthe machine, the purpose of the wheel 102 being to print upon the check-strip the initial of the salesman making the sale and operating the machine. Upon the outer end of the sleeve or tubular shaft 202, carrying the initial-printing wheel 102, is secured a gear-wheel 203, by means of which the wheel 102 may be properly set before the printingframe 90 is set in motion. The gear-wheels 201 and 203 are each engaged by a pivoted dog 204, yieldingly held against said Wheels by means of springs 205, Fig. 18, these dogs 204 allowing the gear-wheels 201 and 203 when the printing-frame 90 is in its initial position to be rotated under yielding restraint in either direction; but during therotation of the printing-frame 90 the inner shank. ends of the dogs 204 will ride around and against a stationary hub 180, Fig. 11, on the frame-plate 122, and thereby said dogs 204 will lock the wheels 201 203 and wheels 101 and 102 against rotation during the movement of said frame 90. The hub 180 has a recess 181, Fig. 11, and the presence of this recess allows the dogs 204 to have the necessary vibration during the setting of the wheels 101 and 102 when the frame 90 is in its initial atrest position. The printing-wheels 101 and 102 are to be manually operated by I the attendant at the time he operates the hand setting-levers 52 and before he operates the exposed crank-handle 83, and the means for setting the printing-wheels 101 and 102 are the segments 206 and 207, having the outwardly-projectinghandles(nnmbered,respectively, 208 and 209, Figs. 3, 10, 11., and 14.) The segments 206 and 207 correspond with each other in construction and are pivotally mounted side by side upon a stationarystud 210, and each of the segments 206 207 is provided with an upper series of teeth 211 and a lower series of teeth 212, the teeth 212 of the segment 206 being in mesh with the intermediate gear-wheel 301, normally engaging the.

gear-wheel on the shaft 200 for the department-printing wheel 101, while the teeth 212 of the segment 207 are in mesh With the intermediate gear-wheel 302,normally engaging the gear-wheel 203 on the tubular shaft 202 for the'initial-printing Wheel102, the said teeth 212 and gear-wheels 301'and 302 and 

